Can I Buy Real Estate Without Attending the Closing?

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Can I Buy Real Estate Without Attending the Closing?

You can buy real estate without attending the closing under certain specific conditions. Find out if you can buy real estate without attending the closing with help from a real estate professional in this free video clip.

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Hi, this is Nicholas Bowers of the Law Office of Nicholas Bowers, a real estate law firm in New York City. Today, we're gonna be talking about whether or not one can buy real estate without attending the closing. Very simply the answer is a definite yes. Now it will depend state by state on specifically how you do that but here in New York where I practice the most common way of doing so is by signing what's called a power of attorney. In a power of attorney you designate a certain person whether you're attorney or someone else you trust as an agent or attend the closing. Common situations I see in which people buy real estate but don't attend the closing are people that live far away from the closing location such as people living abroad. Other situations involve someone who has a work obligation that comes up at the last minute or someone simply just too busy and pressed for time to buy real estate without attending the closing. So to reiterate it is certainly possible to buy real estate without attending a closing. Again, I'm Nicholas Bowers of the Law Office of Nicholas Bowers, a real estate law firm in New York City and I want to thank you for watching today.

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The Law Office of Nicholas E. Bowers offers professional, diligent and thorough legal services to individuals and businesses throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Long Island, and Westchester in the practice areas of Transactional Real Estate, Real Estate Litigation, Landlord and Tenant Law, Business Litigation, Trust and Estates Litigation and Other Civil Litigation.